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Living well with less.Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:18:10 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.3By: Naomi Seldinhttp://blog.timesunion.com/simplerliving/regift-the-right-way/17089/comment-page-1/#comment-5765
Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:09:34 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/simplerliving/?p=17089#comment-5765@chrisck: You hit on something I was thinking about last night.

Jeri Dansky has a great post on her blog right now called “The Generic Gift Problem.” She talks about all of those gifts that end up becoming regifts — candles, scarves, scented soaps, etc. — because people routinely feel pressure to give gifts that no one actually wants or needs.

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Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:22:24 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/simplerliving/?p=17089#comment-5754I think re-gifting is fine and I’ve done it plenty of times. Ditto for giving as a gift something you want to declutter (if it’s nice and would be welcomed by the person you are giving it to). I gave a cd of Bulgarian folk music as a hostess gift on Thanksgiving–I didn’t listen to it more than a couple of time, but my hostess is in a Bulgarian folk band. So that was a no-brainer.

But as with so many things, PREVENTION is the better way. Rather than re-gift, how about reducing some of these gift giving occasions so you don’t have to get rid of these unwanted gifts? I don’t know if that would be called de-gifting or un-gifting, but I’ve found in the last couple of years that I don’t have to re-gift much because I’ve nipped in the bud a lot of gifting in the first place. My favorite gifts to people are ones where they don’t have to feel obliged to run out and get me a gift (a bunch of carrots from my garden) and not for any “gifty” occasion either. It has simplified my life a lot. Frankly all this regifting as described above looks like a lot of work (storing the gift, getting all creative about it).